The amount of margin required to place a trade depends on which currency pair you are trading. If the currency pair starts with USD then it would simply require $200 margin for 1 mini lot trade, or $2,000 margin for 1 standard lot trade. If the currency pair does NOT start with USD then you would take the base currency, and find the pair that is matched with USD. Take the current price for that pair which is matched with USD and move the decimal to the right 3 spaces. This will tell you the current margin requirement for a 1 standard lot trade. Move the decimal to the right 2 spaces, and this will tell you the current margin requirement for a 1 mini lot trade, etc.

For example: If you are trading the USD/JPY it would require $200 margin for 1 mini lot trade.

If you want to trade the EUR/USD and the current price was 1.4642 then you would move the decimal to the right 2 spaces and the margin required for 1 mini lot is $292.84.

If you want to trade the GBP/JPY and the current price of the GBP/USD is 1.6281 then you would move the decimal to the right 2 spaces and the margin required for 1 mini lot is $325.62.

You will receive a margin call liquidation once your Margin Level percentage reaches 100% or lower. Your margin level percentage is the last number listed on your balance bar at the bottom of your platform. The calculation for this is:
(Equity/Margin) x 100 = Margin Level Percentage

You will receive a margin call liquidation when the equity in your account is equal to the margin you are using in your open trades.

In order to provide our customers with better spreads, IBFX updated its servers to a 5 decimal price feed. This fractional pip pricing allows us to provide more competitive fractional spreads with the same great execution.

Example: If your mini account was previously set to 100:1 leverage, then it required $100 margin to place a 1 lot trade. Now with 50:1 leverage you will need $200 margin to place the same 1 mini lot trade if the currency pair starts with USD. If it does not start with USD then please refer to "How much margin is required to place a trade.

You may login to your Live Account on the same MT4 platform you have already been using to trade a demo account. To login to your Live Account follow these steps:

From your platform, go to "File", and down to "Login".

When your account was approved, you received an email containing the information for these three fields. Please use this information to fill out your account number, your live account password, and select from the drop-down menu the server your account is assigned to.

Press Login. After a few seconds you should see a connection status in the bottom right hand corner of your platform.

If you see "invalid account" or "no connection" in this area, you have either entered your account number, password or your server incorrectly.

Trading Account: IBFX Trading Account numbers are used to log into the MT4 trade platform.

IBFX.com login: You selected an ID and password for your IBFX.com login when you filled out the Live Account application. Your ID may also be your email address. Your IBFX.com login is used for making Deposits/Withdrawals and checking your daily statements. Any secure message sent to you from IBFX.com will be sent to the message inbox area of your IBFX.com login instead of to your personal email address. You login to your IBFX.com login from our website www.IBFX.com with the ID and password that you created when you filled out your Live Account application.

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